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Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
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"A rising star of Latin American literature has written a novel that refuses to reduce grief to a scheduled tour through ennobling sorrows... Navarro is a major talent who knows that the most important stages of grief are ambivalence and guilt." — @nytimes.com

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This Novel About a Sister’s Grief Skips the Five Stages
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Human psychology has burdened us with anxiety about the future and regret about the past. It may be fruitful to look outwards. on.wsj.com/4qX0Y0j
‘How to Know Your Self’ Review: Self-Help You Can Use
Human psychology has burdened us with anxiety about the future and regret about the past. It may be fruitful to look outwards.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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A dive into Bob Dylan’s late career has produced the best book on the musician in ages. on.wsj.com/4ahnTMO
‘After the Flood’ Review: Dylan’s Rebirth
A dive into Bob Dylan’s late career has produced the best book on the musician in ages.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
"Our need to 'matter' — to feel valued and deserving of attention — is 'the most peculiar and the most human thing about us,' argues Goldstein... in this engaging book populated with stories of people both famous and ordinary." @nytimes.com on THE MATTERING INSTINCT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
January 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Happy pub day to Robert Polito, whose new book AFTER THE FLOOD: INSIDE BOB DYLAN'S MEMORY PALACE is available wherever books are sold!

“Polito brings a scholastic zeal and care [to] Dylan.... A feat of hyper-attuned reading and listening." (@mojomagazine.bsky.social)

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After the Flood
Blending biography and archival history, <em>After the Flood</em> asks of Bob Dylan, &#8220;If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?&#8221;, After the Flood, ...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Author copies have arrived!

Thanks to the folks at @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com for taking such good care of the book

ATRIA 2/17/26

Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/atri...
January 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Today on the program, a conversation with Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell. Brenda’s new novel, EATING ASHES, is now available from @liveright.bsky.social in an English translation by Megan, a past recipient of the National Book Award.

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
January 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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I look forward to joining this cast of excellent writers tonight for @adroitjournal.bsky.social 8:00 pm on zoom

I’ll be reading from ATRIA, out 2/17/26 @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
Fancy a sneak peek into Issue Fifty-Six? Join us on Tuesday night to hear from a handful of our talented poetry and prose contributors! Reserve your free spot at the link in our bio.
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“Those who have previously quailed or failed before the Commedia will relish Prue Shaw’s new version. It cleverly runs its commentary in and out of the text, and (whisper it quietly) is not afraid to cut or summarize the boring bits.” —Julian Barnes wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Dante: The Essential Commedia
Prue Shaw&#8217;s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come., Dante: The Essential Commedia, Dante Alighieri, Prue Shaw, 97813240...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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March 25th at 7pm: I'll be in conversation with @popcultureamerica.bsky.social about DARKOLOGY: BLACK FACE AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF ENTERTAINMENT @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge, MA (2/3)
January 19, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Our next Chicago Writers Showcase reader is @adrianmatejka.bsky.social reading from BE EASY ( @liveright.bsky.social). The Editor-in-Chief of POETRY magazine, Adrian has published several book-length works of poetry and one graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century🧵
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"A rising star of Latin American literature has written a novel that refuses to reduce grief to a scheduled tour through ennobling sorrows... Navarro is a major talent who knows that the most important stages of grief are ambivalence and guilt." — @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...
This Novel About a Sister’s Grief Skips the Five Stages
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Founding Editor @samanthaschnee.bsky.social is looking forward to THE JAGUAR’S ROAR by Micheliny Verunschk (tr. Juliana Barbassa), from @liveright.bsky.social. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Jaguar's Roar
Check out The Jaguar's Roar - In 1817, two German scientists traveled across Brazil and into the Amazon gathering flora and fauna to study and display in Europe. Among the collection they brought to…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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With all of the craziness out there, we have to celebrate the small joys, right? I received the (uncorrected) full dust jacket for my forthcoming book from @liveright.bsky.social and @wwnorton.com and it made my day.
January 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends

it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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New on Book Post → What makes for a good translation of Aurelius’s Meditations? Jason Mott reflects on the latest translation, by Aaron Poochigian, which renders Aurelius’s thinking with empathy and without distortion.

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Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations”
An accidental masterpiece and a companion in hard times
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January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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#SFinTranslation Out Today:

The Jaguar's Roar by Micheliny Verunschk, tr from the Portuguese by Juliana Barbassa (from @liveright.bsky.social)
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The Jaguar's Roar
An American Booksellers Association's Indie Next Great Read (December 2025) The story of an Indigenous girl&#8217;s kidnapping during a colonial expedition intertwines with a young woman&#8217;s mode...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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My favorite writing thing I did this year beside publish my book was get back into short story writing, including writing this one and getting published at a dream pub. If you haven’t read it, I’ll say that i think it’s a very good end of year kind of story to read
"Your Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks
"...your retirement party, the one they threw for you at the atrocious Italian restaurant. Surprise!, they all yell, which is so awkward because this isn’t a surprise party...."
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December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A week full of gut punches…
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A bleak December
It was a rough week on the democracy front
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December 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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In case you’re hunting for a holiday gift…! 🙏
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In stores today: @mverunschk.bsky.social's THE JAGUAR'S ROAR is the story of an Indigenous girl’s kidnapping during a colonial expedition, intertwining with a young woman’s modern-day search for identity and ancestral truths.

"Luminous and poetic." —Booklist, starred

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December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"The media ecology that Baron describes in 'The Martians' seems strikingly similar to the digital landscape we live in now."

A review of David Baron's new book (@liveright.bsky.social): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-6/
History
David Baron, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Liveright), 336 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. In the wake of his award-winning American Eclipse, Davi…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Exclusively at your local @barnesandnoble.com: while supplies last, receive a free Wings vinyl slipmat with your purchase of Paul McCartney's extraordinary new book WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN!

(Only available while supplies last. Slipmat is located behind the store register.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happy publication day to the legendary Deborah Willis, whose extraordinary "REFLECTIONS IN BLACK: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present" is now available in it's 25th Anniversary Edition, featuring 130 new photos and a foreword from Robin D.G. Kelley! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM